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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TimesTen

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareOracles in-memory data grid solutionIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelSearch engineWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.heavy.aidocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencedocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperElasticApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHEAVY.AI, Inc.OracleOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20102008201620071998
Current release8.6, January 20232.3.4, January 20215.10, January 202214.1, August 202311 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++ and CUDAJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednononoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoCoprocessors in JavanonoPL/SQL
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationyes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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